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March 2019 Update Notes

March is already in full swing and our next update is right around the corner. Not only Spring is coming to our Great Empire, but a lot of great content is making it’s way as well!

We’ll have upgrades for some of your buildings ready for you, a new version of our Collector’s event, new tools and more! So let’s take a look at what’s coming in our Update for March 2019:

Upgrades for your Buildings

This month’s update will implement new upgrades for some of your buildings. Let’s see which buildings will benefit from this:

Relic Barracks

Your barracks will receive additional upgrades, which means that you’ll be able to upgrade them to level 13 with the help of the well-known upgrade tokens and construction tokens! And you know what that means: new bonuses and new troops! The barracks building will experience a slight design update this time as well. Once you’ve upgraded it to a higher level than 9, the barracks building will look like the following:

Let’s take a look at the two new troops that you’d be able to recruit with this upgrade:

Each additional level for your barracks building will provide you with a higher bonus to both your amount of recruitable troops and recruitment speed. The “Relic hammerman” will be unlocked with barracks level 11 and the “Relic longbowman” will be unlocked with barracks level 13!

For a short overview of what you’ll need for upgrading your barracks and what bonuses they will provide, please make sure to take a look at the following short overview:

Relic Barracks

Upgrade Cost

Bonus

Unlocked troops

Level 10

100 upgrade tokens

Recruitment Troop Size 110,

Recruitment Time 30

-

Level 11

100 upgrade tokens & 100 construction tokens

Recruitment Troop Size 110,

Recruitment Time 30

Relic hammerman

Level 12

100 upgrade tokens & 100 construction tokens

Recruitment Troops Size 110,

Recruitment Time 35

-

Level 13

100 upgrade tokens & 150 construction tokens

Recruitment Troops Size 110,

Recruitment Time 35

Relic longbowman

This is not the only building which will receive an upgrade, so let’s take a look at the upgrades of your encampment building!

Relic Encampment

The encampment will also receive some upgrades, with 5 additional levels. Those levels will raise the number of commanders that you’d be able to hold per level. The encampment will also receive a slight design upgrade:

We’ve created a short overview for this as well, so please make sure to take a look at the following table:

Relic Encampment

Upgrade Cost

Bonus

Level 8

200 upgrade tokens & 50 construction tokens

Amount of commanders: 23

Level 9

300 upgrade tokens & 50 construction tokens

Amount of commanders: 26

Level 10

400 upgrade tokens & 50 construction tokens

Amount of commanders: 29

Level 11

500 upgrade tokens & 75 construction tokens

Amount of commanders: 32

Level 12

700 upgrade tokens & 125 construction tokens

Amount of commanders: 35

Collector’s Event - Hive Mind

Our Collector’s Event is back for another round and this time around you’ll have to collect as many bees as you can in the upcoming “Hive Mind”!

The mechanics will be similar to previous versions of the event (e.g. Carnival of the Phoenix):

At the beginning of the event, you’ll receive a certain amount of bees .

Bees can be stolen from enemy players, but they can also be stolen from you vice versa!

And, of course, troops won’t suffer any losses, as long as they got sent out via the event attack (which will look like the following):

You will be able to receive these rewards for bees, as well as purchase them with rubies. The skins are only cosmetic skins though, which means, that there will be no stats bonuses for them. The new castle skins are permanent, but you can't slot them with gems.

New appearance items

2 new appearance construction items will make their way into the game (available through offers for now)

Tree village barracks

Tree village hospital

1 new look item for the castellan (available in the armorer)

Metal Mask (no gem slot)

New Glory Banners & Combo Tools

This month’s update will also provide you with some new additional banners and tools

There will be 2 new glory banners and 8 new combo tools available for you in the armorer!Let’s take a closer look at them in our spoiler below

Wheel of Fortune Reward Adjustment

This update will adjust some of the activity rewards, as well as both the Jackpot rewards (“Normal” and “Hard)

Let’s give you a quick example of those adjustments and what those rewards will look like for the activity rewards:

Activity Reward Step 1

150 Wheel of Fortune Tickets

Activity Reward Step 2

30 minute time skip x 25 + 1 hour time skip x 5

Activity Reward Step 3

Lime Powder Bomb x 100 + Horsetail Banner x 300

Top Reward #1

Bakery Construction Item + Bakery appearance item

Top Reward #2

Igneous plate Armor/Dragon’s Breath Weapon

New Bakery Construction Items

Our Bakery will also receive a small upgrade in the form of new bakery construction items.

These will range from level 11 to level 15 and will provide you with an additional food storage bonus!

Let’s give you a quick overview for levels 11 to 15 of these construction items

Bakery Construction Item

Food storage

Disassemble: Finesand gained

Disassemble: Bricks gained

Disassemble: Flintgained

Disassemble: Farming toolsgained

Disassemble: Resin gained

Disassemble: Soul stone gained

Level 11

50000

334

334

344

675

131

184

Level 12

60000

420

420

444

884

157

203

Level 13

70000

526

526

551

1099

180

234

Level 14

85000

651

651

672

1354

215

266

Level 15

100000

850

850

800

1700

250

300

Reintroduction of the Shapeshifter castellan

The long-awaited Shapeshifter castellan will finally make his way with all of the 3 announced versions of the set in this month’s update!

If you want to take a closer look at the 3 version again then you can find it here on your respective language forum.

The plan is to release this update next week. We will start with the update procedure early in the morning between 9:00 CET and 13:00 CET. The downtime is expected to be around 30-60 minutes long. Of course, food consumption and booster times will be frozen during the longer downtime. But as always, do not take these times as guaranteed, as delays due to unforeseen circumstances can occur.

Please let us know what you think! All comments, suggestions, questions, feedback and discussions are as welcome as always in the normal discussion thread.

Best regards,

Your Empire Family

Post edited by BM Fujiwara on 21.03.2019

fujiwara @ en-1fujiwara @ us-1

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Brave Warriors,The update announced for this week will take place tomorrow, Thursday the 21st of March. Please take note that the downtime should take between 30-60 minutes from 9:00 CET to 13:00 CET, as previously stated above in our March Update notes! Please note that the Outer Realms will be updated fifteen minutes beforehand and will become available again only once all updates are complete.